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Promoting Technical Communication Skills

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Vicki V. May P.E., Dartmouth College; David Alexander Macaulay

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, students are expected to create a display (poster, brochure, animations, or video)that visually communicates how an engineered system of their choice works. While the studentswork individually on the displays for each unit, they collaborate with peers in the class tobrainstorm ideas, improve drafts and evaluate the final projects. Engineered systems that studentshave selected to explain include clocks, LED lights, bicycle gears, stethoscopes, games,thermometers, wind turbines, photovoltaics, and more. The course syllabus is provided inAppendix A.In addition to the projects, each unit includes introductory lectures related to engineering,sketching lessons and exercises, hands-on building projects, and reverse engineering activities.The following

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Ethical and Global Concerns

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Alison Wood , Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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earn a Master of Science in Engineering in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, while working with the Austin chapter of Engineers Without Borders as a volunteer and project lead for a project in Peru. She has published and presented on incentivizing decentralized sanitation and wastewater treatment, on sustainability of coastal community water and sanitation service options, as well as on integrating liberal arts and STEM education, currently through the vehicle of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program. She has co-designed workshops oriented toward educational change for Olin’s Summer Institute and the joint Olin College-Emerson

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Creating a Supportive and Nurturing Academic Culture

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Joseph F. Mirabelli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Allyson Jo Barlow, University of Nevada, Reno; Evan Ko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kelly J. Cross, University of Nevada, Reno; Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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(e.g. sameinstitution or different institution), the style of mentorship preferred by mentor and mentee, theability for mentees to network within the EER community, the academic rank of the mentor andmentee, and the interpersonal relationships between RIEF grantee pairings. The aim of thepresent work is to illuminate the ways in which these findings resonate within the EERcommunity, as well as to move towards impactful distribution of future results. The outcomes ofthe study are related to a larger project which will fuse our team’s experience hostingworkshops, networking with RIEF grantees, and developing training materials for faculty joiningthe EER community. Developing an understanding of best practices for faculty-faculty peermentorship

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Sustainability and Social Responsibility

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Jessica Taylor, Iowa State University; Rebekah Oulton P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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disciplines, the structure and coursework of the classallow students to explore varied perspectives and approaches to addressing global problems.This paper argues that engineering students need to engage with the SDGs in the context ofengineering problems to equip them as innovative problem solvers. Further, evaluatingengineering projects and processes simultaneously through social, political, and environmentallenses expands the context and considerations taken in the problem-solving process.The proposed course will be piloted through the Civil and Environmental EngineeringDepartment at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). Toencourage collaboration between students from diverse disciplines, the course will be offered

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Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education

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David Robert Bruce P.E., Fulbright University Vietnam; Sebastian Dziallas, Fulbright University Vietnam

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interdisciplinary core of the first-year program introduces students to topics spanning thearts, humanities, engineering, and the social, natural, and computational sciences. The initialengineering focused course, Creating & Making, is focused on practicing skills in ideation,project scoping, project management, reporting, communicating, and other aspects of designmethodology. The course content is community driven and while nucleated with concreteexamples of course material from the instructors, allows the student body to explore and reflectupon the benefits and drawbacks of the provided examples and to organically investigatealternative approaches through their practice. In this approach, rather than outlining a discretesubset of material, the

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Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

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Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Christian Michael Culloty, University of Georgia; Jacob Hopkins; Julie R. Harrell, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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Experience Project,” at the University of Georgia (UGA).Through sharing our experiences with using this novel approach, the purpose of this paper is tostart a conversation1 about the affordances and limitations of using SenseMaker to investigateand transform cultures and practices of engineering education. To this end, we hope readers willfinish this paper with a working understanding of what SenseMaker is, what is involved indesigning and conducting a SenseMaker study, what the results look like, how this approach hasbeen used in the past, and questions we are currently reflecting on as we plan our next round ofdata collection.Recognizing the limitations of a conference paper, where appropriate we direct readers toadditional sources that describe

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Sociotechnical Integration

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Maysam Nezafati, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mel Chua, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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; Hendricks,2019), or senior projects such as (Cezeaux, Keyser, Haffner, Kaboray, & Hasenjager, 2008) and(Nasir, Kleinke, & McClelland, 2016). The only mention of anything between the two was in(Blaser, Steele, & Burghstahler, 2015) with a list of modifications that could hypothetically bemade to middle-years courses.Amplifying the challenge, middle-years courses have historically been heavily focused onanalytical procedures and technical content (Lord & Chen, 2014). This creates an additionalchallenge of knowledge transfer. Without explicitly developing inclusion skills in the context ofanalytical and technical practices, students might consider including diverse users and teammatesonly in specific contexts - for instance, taking

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Relationships Between Skills and Knowledge Domains

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Keith E. Hedges, Drury University

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“understanding of architectural design and history leading to architectural design that willpermit communication, and interaction, with the other design professionals in the execution ofbuilding projects [6, p. 6].” Other constituents suggested more specificity in the criteria of thedesign process and team engagements. For the design process, the Architectural EngineeringInstitute (AEI) Academic Council “believes it is a professional responsibility for architecturalengineers to have a basic understanding of the design process of the architects involved in theexecution of building projects [7, p. 7].” For team engagements, the American Society of CivilEngineers (ASCE) Body of Knowledge (BOK) provided a more succinct example of thecomposition within a

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Sustainability and Social Responsibility

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Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Kari Zacharias, Concordia University; Brandiff Robert Caron, Concordia University

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institutionalarrangements necessary to help students develop these skills have not yet settled into a widelyadopted standard. Many engineering programs have turned to STS to provide students withconceptual tool kits to think about engineering problems and solutions in more sophisticatedways. Some programs feature standalone courses on the sociocultural aspects of technology andengineering, often taught by faculty from outside the engineering school. Others incorporate STSmaterial into traditional engineering courses, e.g., by making ethical or societal impactassessments part of capstone projects. This work in progress paper draws on the research team’s personal experience to examinethe character of an atypical, but potentially very powerful, model: STS

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Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education

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Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Julia Nicodemus, Lafayette College; Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College

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the retention of underrepresented students in engineering. These include:(1) emphasizing the social construction of engineering knowledge, which empowers andliberates students as prospective makers-of-knowledge; (2) emphasizing the social relevance ofengineering content, particularly in engineering projects [e.g. 25]; and (3) emphasizing thecollaborative, creative nature of engineering design.The recent tendency to depoliticize engineering instruction and culture is not simply inaccurate;it has also been shown by Erin Cech to be harmful, particularly to those members of engineeringcommunities who may be marginalized [26]. From Cech and Sherick [26]: Engineering as a profession prides itself on problem identification, evidence-based

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Minoritization Processes and Critical Responses

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Ellen Foster, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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movement organizing theories employed and the networks engaged bothinside and outside of engineering in order to achieve these goals. We then provide detailsregarding our organizing practices and the specific activities that participants engaged in duringthe week of action. Finally, we will share reflections on lessons learned about the process and itsoutcomes, with the expectation that conversation and feedback received from the broaderengineering education community will inform recurring efforts in this domain, and growparticipation in a social movement approach to change in engineering education.IntroductionThe #EngineersShowUp campaign is organized as part of the Relational Organizing/ActionResearch (ROAR) project, which explores the utility

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Promoting Communication Skills

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Gabrielle Orbaek White, Swansea University ; Patricia Xavier, Swansea University; Catherine Groves, Swansea University

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action.Critical reflection is embedded within a program that recruits both engineers and non-engineers,with teaching and learning strategies drawn from the social sciences and humanities andintegrated with engineering management and problem-based learning. The program connectsstudents to a project partner in Sierra Leone or Zambia, the students work to understand theirpartners’ needs and assets and then develop an intervention plan consistent with the aims of theSDGs.In this paper, we provide results of a critically reflexive thematic analysis to explore the nature ofstudent reflections within the context of this interdisciplinary program. Evidence suggests arange of student interpretation of the purpose and application of critical reflection. Some are

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Minoritization Processes and Critical Responses

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Kelly J. Cross, University of Nevada, Reno; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education

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certain aspects of your identity with thegoal of being perceived as non-LGBTQ+ in certain settings) demands on both students andfaculty. With regard to faculty, when comparing academic climate and career consequencesamong LGBTQ faculty in various fields, Partridge, Barthelemy, and Rankin found that those inSTEM fields reported the highest level of discomfort on campus, in departments, and inclassrooms; those who faced discomfort were more than twice as likely to consider leaving theirinstitution [5].This project builds on the success of a previous exploratory phase [title deleted to maintain theintegrity of the review process] and aims to support engineering departments’ efforts to createLGBTQ+-inclusive environments. While our project focuses

Conference Session

Ethical and Global Concerns

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Ellen Lynch, Australian National University; Jeremy Ingle Smith, Australian National University

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at the Australian National University, Jeremy has worked on introducing a range of humanitarian engineering and service-learning projects into engineering undergraduate studies, covering both international and domestic opportunities. In 2015 he delivered the first later year dedicated humani- tarian engineering course in Australia, supported by Engineers Without Borders Australia. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Evolution of Humanitarian Engineering in AustraliaIntroductionThe role of engineering within short- and long-term humanitarian action and human developmentactivities is well established. In such practice, engineers can be undertaking post-natural

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Sociotechnical Integration

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Cynthia Helen Carlson P.E., Merrimack College; Catherine Woodworth Wong, Merrimack College

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concepts again; there are multiple group projects and researchprojects in their time at our school, as well as courses on ethics and professionalism. However,introducing these concepts in their first semester prepares students for future courses, and helpsthem understand that engineering is not just problem sets and robotics.Background: The College and the CourseEngineers often do not arrive at college with an appreciation for the importance of professionalresearch and communication skills [1]. These skills are necessary not only for their successfulundergraduate career, but also for a successful engineering career. Engineering students areoften unaware of the number of reports and presentations they will be expected to deliver, or theamount of

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Sustainability and Social Responsibility

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Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia

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- sional Responsibility. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Designing for a Sustainable World: Integrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into a First-Year Engineering Course in Science, Technology, and SocietyIntroduction I am an instructor on a teaching team for a required first-year engineering course inscience, technology and society (STS) at the University of Virginia. The course enrolls 360-400students each semester, and its primary learning goals are to introduce students to social andethical aspects of engineering design and to help them hone communication skills relevant toengineering practice. The major project in the course is a

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Creating a Supportive and Nurturing Academic Culture

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Madhvi Jayalakshmi Venkatesh, Harvard Medical School; Prakriti Dance; Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Eleanor Berke, Boston Public Schools; Jimena Bermejo; David Freeman, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Abigail M. Fry; Alex L. Hindelang

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research interests lie in the field of STEM edu- cation with specific emphasis on innovative pedagogical and curricular practices at the intersection with the issues of gender and diversity. With the goal of improving learning opportunities for all students and equipping faculty with the knowledge and skills necessary to create such opportunities, Dr. Zastavker’s re- cent work involves questions pertaining to students’ motivational attitudes and their learning journeys in a variety of educational environments. One of the founding faculty at Olin College, Dr. Zastavker has been engaged in development and implementation of project-based experiences in fields ranging from science to engineering and design to social

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Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

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Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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. What themes emerge from studies’ findings about the impact of outreach on undergraduates?Method The first steps were to develop inclusion and exclusion criteria for the review. Criteria forincluding the papers were fourfold: (1) describe programmatic outreach efforts from one or morecolleges of engineering to K-12 audiences, (2) include undergraduate engineering students asambassadors or mentors, (3) take place within the continental United States, and (4) includeevidence of impacts on the undergraduate students. In other words, papers were excluded if they(1) described undergraduate involvement in service learning, affinity group, or communityengagement projects, (2) included undergraduates simply as chaperones or creators of

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Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education

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Michael Oudshoorn, High Point University; Claire Lynne McCullough P.E., High Point University

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for Social Scienceswithin the university core. This required the course to conduct some surveys and analyze the datain a meaningful way, and this activity had to be a reasonable percentage of the course content.Fortunately the four-credit course structure permits this to happen and still retain sufficient classtime and activities to explore project management, the functions of an engineering team within thecontext of a business operation, and aspects of entrepreneurship. The course allows the engineeringstudents to have a basic understanding of business principles and terminology.3.2 ABET AssessmentWhile much of the liberal arts core does not directly contribute to ABET assessment, the courseon Engineering and Technology Ethics will be used

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Identity, Culture, and Socialization

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Benjamin Goldschneider, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Jennifer M. Case, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

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,Chemical Engineering, and Chemistry students will be analyzed in order to answer the followingresearch questions: 1. What types of socializing agents do students engage with prior to arriving at their university and what impact, if one at all, do these agents have on students’ choice of discipline? 2. What types of disciplinary socialization do first-year students engage in at their university and why choose these specific types? 3. What differences, if any, exist in the engagement with disciplinary socialization between first-year biochemistry, chemical engineering, and chemistry students?Broader Project BackgroundThis qualitative analysis makes use of an existing dataset that is part of a larger project involvingsix

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Ethical and Global Concerns

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Elizabeth A. Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Stephen Campbell Rea, Colorado School of Mines; Qin Zhu, Colorado School of Mines

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navigateworkplace legal structures, but also changing how they perceive engineering as a field for ethicalaction. In this paper, we consider the degree to which ethics are integrated into engineeringcourses. To this end, we examine the popular use of the medical metaphor of “dosage” in relationto ethics in the engineering classroom. We identify this usage pattern and use thematic analysisto consider its implications in engineering education literature. Taking medical metaphorsseriously can sensitize us to certain troubles related to the limited integration of ethics intoengineering classrooms. This has implications for projects related to education research andengineering education reform. Focusing on what we expect ethics education to do can help us

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Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

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Jakob C. Bruhl, United States Military Academy; Win Gilbert Bruhl, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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of design courses. Walesh’s book comes closestbut, while interesting and valuable, does not provide clear ideas for implementation withintypical engineering courses. Building on the work of Sternberg and others, Cropley offersprinciples and strategies for incorporating the development of creativity in engineering curricula.Many of these center around the idea of providing more opportunities for students to engage increativity throughout the curriculum.13 Baillie and Walker offer case studies of how creativitymay be integrated into three different courses (first year mechanical engineering, materialsscience, and a physics seminar).14Too many times in our engineering programs, we assign constrained problems and projects inour courses until the

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Sociotechnical Integration

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Jacquelene Erickson, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder

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. Lucena, focused on rendering visible the social justice dimensions inherent in three components of the engineering curriculum—in engineering sciences, engineering design, and humanities and social science courses; that work resulted in Engineering Justice: Transforming Engineering Education and Practice (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2018). His current research grant project explores how to foster and assess sociotechnical thinking in engineering science and design courses.Dr. Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines Kathryn Johnson is an Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in the Department of Elec- trical Engineering and Computer Science and is Jointly Appointed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s

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Relationships Between Skills and Knowledge Domains

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Ryan H. Koontz, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Daniel F. Dolan, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Kimberly Karen Osberg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Paper ID #28642Correlating the student engineer’s design process with emotionalintelligence.Dr. Ryan H Koontz, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Ryan Koontz received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1999 and an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 2002 from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT). In 2004, Ryan joined the Center of Excellence for Advanced Multi-Disciplinary Projects (CAMP) as the manufacturing specialist. He currently instructs students of CAMP through the design and manufacturing process and helps produce parts for the co-curricular teams of CAMP. He completed

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Promoting Communication Skills

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Bruce Kovanen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ryan Ware, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Megan Mericle, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; J. Patrick Coleman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John S. Popovics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; S. Lance Cooper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John R. Gallagher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Paul Prior, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julie L. Zilles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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-yearintervention project designed to enhance writing in engineering and STEM. The examplesdescribe reflective, writing-to-learn activities for first-year orientation courses; scaffoldedapproaches for laboratory and problem-based-learning classes; and directed peer review andresponse to reviewer comments in middle- and upper-level courses. The paper concludes byaddressing the vital role STEM faculty play in socializing their students into ways of thinking,being, and writing in their disciplines and demonstrates how a process orientation to writinginstruction can help faculty achieve that goal.Section I: IntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has identified effectivecommunication as a key criterion of engineering

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Promoting Communication Skills

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Charlie Bennett, Georgia Institute of Technology; Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia

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faculty and students to present their scholarship and creative work to the general public through popular media, usually providing production, technical, and teaching assistance for radio and podcasting projects. He has earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics (1998) and Science, Technology, Culture (2000) from Georgia Tech and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from Valdosta State University (2011), and co-hosts the ”research-library rock’n’roll radio show” called Lost in the Stacks on WREK Atlanta.Dr. Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia Dr. Laugelli is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He teaches courses that explore social and

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Ethical and Global Concerns

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Robert S. Emmett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Natasha B. Watts, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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- versity of Chicago, 2018). His humanities scholarship has appeared in the journals Interdisciplinary Stud- ies in Literature and Environment, Environmental Humanities, Resilience and elsewhere orcid.org/0000- 0002-4526-6094). From 2013-2015, Dr. Emmett served as Director of Academic Programs at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany. He has taught humanities courses in interdisciplinary programs at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Ludwig-Maximilians- Universit¨at in Munich. He holds a Ph.D. in English (University of Wisconsin) and is a certified Project Management Professional.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Homero

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Promoting Technical Communication Skills

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Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Kaitlyn Pigeon, Pennsylvania State University

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thiscourse for their professional engineers and scientists, we were confident that the content of thiscourse would have value for engineering and science students.Figure 1. Timeline of actions that we took to build and develop the online resources. The items in blue representsteps we took to test our online resources. The items in green represent responses to those tests. The item in whiterepresents our initial innovation. Nothing significant occurred on the project in December 2019. Our starting point for the online resources (our initial innovation) closely followed thepopular textbook [3], with ten lessons representing the ten chapters and four supplementarylessons following the book’s four appendices. To create the films, we used a film

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Technical Courses and Liberal Education

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Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington

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for engineering educators by providing atransferable, easy-to-implement reflection activity that can be implemented in any engineeringcourse that includes a presentation assignment.Reflection to Enhance Learning and AssessmentReflection as a teaching approach is becoming increasingly recognized in engineering education[1, 2], where it is often used to promote cognitive development and can help students learn morefrom projects, internships, and other educational experiences [3-7]. For example, a common in-class reflective activity is the “exam wrapper”: shortly after an exam, students articulate whatthey did that helped them do well on the exam and what they could do differently to improvetheir performance on a future exam.Recently, reflection

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Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

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Michael Lachney, Michigan State University; Madison C. Allen, Michigan State University ; Briana P. Green, Michigan State University

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, how people define those steps is different. Like the high school Project Lead the Way, there's twelve steps in the process, [in] middle school I've cut it down to about six steps.In addition to incorporating engineering design into her technology education curriculum, shealso does so in after-school programs. In addition, she participates in technology-based profes-sional development, some of which is run out of a local engineering college. Julie’s approach to engineering education is reminiscent of Papert’s [12] intentions withthe design of Logo as an object-to-think-with. This connection is in no small part due to Julie’suse of constructionist technologies (e.g. LEGO Mindstorms, Snap!, and more) and the universityprograms